Sentences with phrase «grain harvest enough»

Thus any attempt to expand the world grain harvest enough to rebuild depleted world grain stocks starts with reversing the decline in China.

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Fall foliage, cider - making, vegetable harvesting, grain threshing, and more (Sturbridge, Mass.) Oct. 2, 2012 — Fall harvest time in early New England was an important time of year when farm families worked hard to put away enough food to last until the following summer.

In summary, I say it is going to get cooler, with a significant probability that it will be cold enough to negatively affect the grain harvest.

This presents an unprecedented geopolitical situation in which 1.3 billion Chinese consumers who have a $ 120 - billion trade surplus with the United States — enough to buy the entire U.S. grain harvest twice over — will compete with Americans for U.S. food, likely driving up food prices for the United States and the world.

Producing enough grain to make it to the next harvest has tested farmers ever since agriculture began, but the challenge is deepening as new trends — falling water tables, plateauing grain yields, and rising temperatures — make it difficult to expand production fast enough.

Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce one ton of grain, the shortfall in the Hai basin of nearly 40 billion tons of water per year (1 ton equals 1 cubic meter) means that when the aquifer is depleted, the grain harvest will drop by 40 million tons — enough to feed 120 million Chinese.